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Desolate
Majesty: Preserving beauty without borders Straddling Texas
and Mexico, the Big Bend region is high in biodiversity and low
in footprints. [National Geographic, February 2007] Listen
to National Geographic staffer Kathleen Ridgely read "Desolate Majesty:
Beyond Big Bend."
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Big
Bend Field Notes The author jumps over a watery passage in
the Chihuahuan Desert. Two and a half million acres (one million hectares)
of this desert straddle the Texas-Mexico border in a block of protected
land known as El Carmen–Big Bend Transboundary Megacorridor.
[National Geographic, February 2007] |
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Park
and Parcel The underfunded Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
struggles to sell itself [The Texas Observer, April 7, 2006]
Back
in Black With or without a stocking program, the black bear
is returning to East Texas. [Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine,
February 2006]
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Far Out
Far West Texas When the bumpy dirt road to this Far West
Texas ghost town was coated with asphalt four years ago, Terlingua
became convenient. Its days as a sleepy, unpretentious, off-the-beaten-path
reinvented mining town were over. [The Texas Observer, December
16, 2005]
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Paging
Dr. Frankendeer A controversy over cloned deer erupts
in Texas. [Field & Stream, November 30, 2005]
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I get to profile one of my favorite Texans, Russell Graves, the
cover story in the latest issue of Texas Co-op Power, the most widely-read
magazine in the state of Texas, with a circulation of more than
one million. Read the story as a PDF
document using Adobe Acrobat Reader. [Texas Co-op Power, August
2005]
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Up
Close and Texan Visitors for the big 'fooba' game have their
own ways. So listen up, all y'all. [The Los Angeles Times, December
30, 2004]
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It's
a Texas Thang - Or Is It? From the Texas Observer's 50th Anniversary
issue...It was on a trip to my mother's native country of Greece that
I realized there really is such a thing as Texas culture. [The Texas
Observer, December 3, 2004] |
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See
the Forest of Cooperation for the Trees The first shot marking
a new phase in the great American environmental war was fired last
week -- in Fort Worth, of all places. But hardly anyone heard it.
[Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 19, 2003]
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A
Time to Drill? Last year the feds went toe-to-toe with environmentalists
over allowing natural-gas drilling on Padre Island, but neither side
has scored a knockout. Here's what to expect. [Texas Monthly, March
2003] |
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Pom-pom
and Circumstance
Why you can't spell "cheerleader" without "leader."
[Texas Monthly, My Life, February 2003 ] |
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Alive
and Kicking Nothing advertises your Texas bona fides more
these days than a pair of handmade cowboy boots. Here's everything
you need to know about them - how to tell a vamp from a pull, which
toe style is right with a suit - and where to buy the best. [Texas
Monthly, June 2002]
see also Boot
Anatomy; 25
Top Custom Bootmakers
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What
Would Donald Judd Do? Seven years after Donald Judd's death,
the residents of a cow town in far west Texas are caught in the
middle of an estate war between the renowned artist's former lover
and his children. [July 2001]
see also The
House That Judd Built
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Team
Player How George W. Bush ran the Texas Rangers and became,
finally, a successful businessman. [Texas Monthly, June 1999]
extra My
Wimberley Why Wimberley is not Columbine. [Texas Monthly,
Behind the Lines, June 1999]
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